Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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mean tensile strength

The average value of the results obtained by testing the tensile strength of a material. Where the material has a warp or machine direction, the testing is conducted in both the machine, or warp, direction and the cross, or weft, direction. (197 )




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